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Email: "Jewelry Question"

A person satisfied with SNS' handling of the "jewelry issue" speaks up.

"I was quite pleased with my experience with them and even called their offices to let them know since I have never had so much hospitality given to me when I buy jewelry."

- Email author

Background

During April and May of 2007, two articles were published on this site regarding Society of Novus Spiritus jewelry.

The first article (Novus Spiritus - Some Jewelry With a "Quality Issue") described the organization's selling of jewelry with stones which were advertised as diamonds, but subsequently identified as being cubic zirconia, a "mock diamond."

The second (Novus Spiritus - Followup to "Jewelry 'Quality Issue'") focused primarily on the Society's return policy with that jewelry.

I recently received an email from a person who had purchased some of the jewelry in question, and who was satisfied with their "return experience."

In the interest of fairness, I am sharing that email here.

The Email

Here, with the author's permission, is that email:

Subject: Jewelry Question
From: [email address]
Date: Sun, Jul 08, 2007 9:37 pm
To: [email address]

Hello there,

I recently came upon your website by accident and saw that you were speaking of Sylvia Browne's jewelry line in which certain pieces were not up to standard with the rest of the line. One line caught my eye:

The undated "letter" from ITC is written as though it was intended to be sent out to members who had purchased the jewelry. Was it sent out? I don't know.

To answer your question specifically, it was sent out long before June 1st. I was one of the first to purchase some of Sylvia's jewelry (long before October of 2005)--first a white gold ring, then yellow gold pendant. One diamond fell out of the pendant, though I wear it daily and am very active so I did not think much of it. In mid-March of 2007 I received a letter from the Sylvia Browne headquarters indicating that my pieces my not be up to par and that I can send them back before June to have them inspected and cleaned for free or replaced for free at no charge. I was impressed to see that they also included proper shipping arrangements for the pieces to be sent to them in Campell, CA completely at their expense. They also informed me it would be sent back within 10 days.

A few days after I had sent it off I had gotten a call from one of Sylvia's ministers to say the pieces were finished and wanted to check the correct shipping address. When they arrived about 2 days later, they were gorgeous. In the letter i sent with the pieces I asked if I could have the ring replaced for a yellow gold ring since when I bought it, they had not yet offered that coloring. Though the ring was not defective and quite used, they still gave me a new, yellow-gold one for free, in addition to a new pendant, simply because I asked (the price I paid was also much less since the mark up began about 6 months-1 year after they began being sold).

I was quite pleased with my experience with them and even called their offices to let them know since I have never had so much hospitality given to me when I buy jewelry. They looked up the records from everyone who had ever bought their jewelry during the questionable period, sent out personal letters and ate up all costs associated with the experience. I had not even seen the notice on the website about the problem until AFTER I had received my new pieces in the mail due to their promptness.

In any event, that is my experience and my answer to your question.

I hope you have a wonderful day.

Analysis

When I received this email, my first thought was to try and confirm that it was indeed from a satisfied customer.

Whenever a site publishes "reviews" of a company's products (such as Amazon.com's book reviews), there is the potential for people within that company to pose as customers and submit phony positive reviews (and for their rivals to do likewise with phony negative reviews).

Was this email really from a customer, or from someone inside SNS? I exchanged a few more emails with the author of the one above, and am satisfied that they are indeed a customer.

Is their experience with the SNS jewelry and return policy a typical one? I hope it is, but do not know. Theirs is the only email I have received, positive or negative, from someone who had undergone the return procedure.

Conclusion

My thanks to the person who sent the email, both for sending it, and for allowing me to publish it here.

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